Marquis de Condorcet

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Carintat, Marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743-28 March 1794) was a member of the National Convention from the monarchist Girondins. He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, and he committed suicide rather than be guillotined.

Biography
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Carintat was born in Ribemont, Picardy, France on 17 September 1743. He became a mathematician and political scientist, and he invented the Condorcet method of voting, in which the person with the most tallies in an election would win the election. Condorcet also advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, equal rights for women and people of all races, and a constitutional monarchy, and he became affiliated with the Girondins during the French Revolution. In 1791, he entered the Legislative Assembly, and he remained in politics as a deputy to the National Convention after it replaced the Legislative Assembly. In 1794, the Committee of Public Safety ordered for his arrest during the Reign of Terror, and he took poison in his prison cell rather than face trial.